CPLD version 101 Strike F1 key
When rebooting one of our Dell T710 servers the following was displayed:iDRAC6 Firmware Revision version 1.70.21Primary Backplane Firmware Revision 1.09Flex Bay Firmware Revision 1.09...
View ArticlePE Perc 6 RAID 1 HDD shows SMART error
Server with 2x146GB SAS HDD in RAID 1 setup. Recently, Disk 0 show amber light and PERC shows Disk 0 missing and Disk 1 foreign.Boot server to PERC config menu, reset disk 1 from foreign to online....
View ArticlePERC H700 to PERC H710p Upgrade
Hi all,I was wondering if it was possible to change out an H700 for an H710p. We are looking at doing this in order to leverage the VMWare VSA. We would like to move it from a PE r720 to PE r910 server...
View ArticleNew hard drive first time setup
Hi everyone,I'm very new to Dell servers.I am trying to install server 2008 R2, but having a hard time finding the 3rd party raid drivers so that my hard drive will be recognized by windows. Anyone...
View ArticlePowerEdge T100 - SAS 6ir RAID Controller and Fan
Hi Everyone!We have recently upgraded an old Dell PowerEdge T100 server to support RAID 1 by adding a Dell SAS 6ir PCI-E RAID card. When we boot the server we seeing the message "Alert: Hard disk fan...
View ArticlePE2900 access a non-raid disk
Hi allI just received from our partner recovered data from a previous RAID5 configuration. I'm trying to mount this 2 physical disks (each one has a VHD file on it), but dont know how to use them as a...
View ArticlePERC H310 Adapter for 2008 R2 not working
I'm having a heck of a time getting some H310 adapters to work. I have been using some PERC 6/i adapters and now I decided to try these out since they support 6Gbps drives and 3TB drives.The problem is...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Software/Dynamic Disk RAID 0 Usable?
I have a T110 running Windows 2003 x86 Standard and have a PERC controller running my OS. I also have a single SSD attached to the onboard SATA controller just for storage and pagefile. As an...
View ArticleCreate 2 virtual disks in the PERC
HiWe have PowerEdge 1950 server with HD extension PowerVault MD1000 (4.5 TB in RAID5) connecting via SCSI cables.Howto create 2 virtual 2TB disks in the PERC?
View ArticleQuestion on dual RAID controllers
The scenario I'm envisioning, is two have two RAID controllers working in tandem where if one fails, the other can take over and maintain the RAID configuration. Are they any PowerEdge servers that...
View ArticleConfiguring RAID6 array for future growth
Hi,I have a PowerEdge r510 with 6 x 3 TB HDDs. I have configured the system using the PERC controller and added 5 of the disks into one single RAID6 volume. I plan to add new disks in the future, so...
View ArticlePoor performance from PERC S110 in RAID 5
When configured in RAID 5, MS Server 2008 R2, the performance is so poor that the OS freezes during disk writes and users lose contact with a SQL database resulting in errors. Disk writes are...
View ArticlePerc 2/DC not recognizing SCSI drive config
Have Perc2/DC card in PE1400 - since system crash, card now only recognizes a RAID 5 config of the 4 scsi drives installed ..not the mirror config of the drives it had before it went down. Got all the...
View ArticleTwo questions on using Raid 0
Thanks for the help on this.Setting up a Dell 2950 running Windows XP Pro SP3. Perc5i raid controller installed and working fine.This machine will be for capturing uncompressed video so maximizing my...
View ArticleUpdating hard drive firmware
Hello all...I have three Seagate Cheetah 15k hard drives to be configured into a Raid 0 in my 2950 system. Two have firmware S513 and one I have on order has S515.I've read that it is best to have all...
View ArticlePerc3/Di driver for boot floppy on Poweredge 2500 Win 2000 server
Hi everyone,I have a Poweredge 2500 with a SCSI Raid array, running Windows 2000 Server. It will neither boot from HDD nor CD ROM. I have made a boot floppy on which I have included the Perc2 Perc2/si...
View ArticleUnstabel storage (Perc 5i)
ESXi 5.1.0 with Perc 5/i (battery is not installed yet). ESXi is boot from a CF card. I have a RAID1 with two 1TB disc (system disc where I have located the VM`s). I installed ESXi and created four...
View ArticleCERC ATA100/4ch RAID Crash
Setup:Dell PowerEdge 600sc4GB RAMWindows Server Ent 2K3Drives: 2 - 80GB OS mirroredDrives: 4 - 250GB Data RAID 5RAID Controller: CERC ATA100/4ch RAIDI recently had one of the OS disk crash. My vender...
View ArticleDell R610 not booting if USB hard drives plugged in.
Hello,Our Dell R610 not booting if USB hard drive plugged in.I tried to update the R610's BIOS to the latest version, however it is still not able to boot properly. We have two USB backup drives that...
View ArticleI can't set up my logical drives in my PE 2650. . .
i have 3 36 gig hdds in my hot-swap bays in my dual dual-core Xeon 3.6Ghz Poweredge 2650.it has 6 Gigs of ram, and scsi ports 0 to 2 (i believe) designated for hard drives. it is missing a raid key.i...
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